 Hey, just a couple of verses. We'll read from the problems 22. Problems 22 and works 1. So there's a good name. It's to be chosen rather than great riches. Loving favor than silver and gold. A good name is to be chosen meaning your testimony, our reputation. That is to be chosen. Even more than silver or gold, more than material possessions and treasures and riches and so on. So that is what we see here. And then it will be done to Revelation chapter 3. Revelation 3 and this is the Lord's message to the church in Sardis. Revelation 3 and verse 1, these things says he who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars, all works that you have a name that you are alive but you are dead. A name referring to reputation or testimony or what is the impression that people have about us on the outside. So it says that problem 22 says a good name is to be chosen more than gold or silver and treasures. Here it's talking about the church, a group of people, followers of the Lord who have a name, who have a reputation. This is what the general impression of people is about them. The impression is that you are, that you have a name that you are alive but you are dead. So one is of course the importance of testimony, the importance of our reputation or reputation, testimony in front of people but more important than that is God's assessment of us, His assessment of us, His evaluation of us and our reputation in front of Him that actually goes beyond because that's the beyond people's assessment and evaluation because that is a true evaluation, that is a true picture. So this morning we just pray and say, okay God, I just want your true assessment, true evaluation. Yes, more than what people can say, more than my reputation with people or friends, family, whatever, more than that Lord, I want your assessment of me. Yeah, let's just pray on those lines. Father we thank you, thank you Lord that a good name is to be chosen than treasures of gold and silver but Lord, you see in Revelation 3 that your true assessment, Father God, that goes beyond what people can see on the outside and Lord even Lord our evaluation that people might have, the reputation that we might have in front of people, Father God. And Lord we ask, Father God, that you will pronounce your assessment Lord, your evaluation of us over our life so on and we know that grace and truth come together, Father God, that it is always with grace and truth and so God we receive them today your assessment of ourselves, your evaluation which comes with grace and truth. We receive that Father God, we thank you that there is grace, this empowerment to make changes and at the same time Lord it comes as a true evaluation that clear assessment of who we are. Father we thank you that that you are with us to do this Lord and I just pray that may our lives be in alignment Lord, alignment with Lord, alignment with the truth alignment with who we have called us to be Lord, may our lives be in alignment to your word we just want to thank you, we give you all the praise and glory in Jesus' master's name okay IRP in that place again so yeah let's take this time to probably address any doubts, questions, any clarifications that you might have and also if you've started the work you know about according to the timeline you know some more time a week to submit the status, status of whatever work is done on the 29th, same time next week but before that if there is anything that you want to share about your status of any place that you are getting stuck or anything about the progress that you are making please go ahead, any questions that you might have ask that also yeah so over to you so in line with your topic yeah yes Lubeika please go ahead still my question, good morning pastor and my colleagues good morning my question is am I good to go or I still need to wait from you sir so you're good to go I think we spoke about this yesterday, I mean last week you asked biblical view on sexual immorality and its implications to your local church so please go ahead and yeah so just a couple of questions so how do you plan to go ahead with this research on the way here, so it's a sensitive topic right, sexual immorality and its consequences your local church, your local church so the scope of research everything is good but how do you plan to go ahead and do this research are you still there Lubeika, yeah I can see I have just come back pastor I'm sorry come again, I have lost the internet okay yeah so you want me to repeat so the topic is good, the scope of your research is good, you've restricted it to the local church that's fine but can you hear me, you pastor I'm here yeah yeah so my question is how do you plan to do this research, how do you plan to carry out this research, collect information and so on, so how do you plan to do that yeah I think pastor you also know how sexual immorality is a real challenge in this generation not in my church only, but it has always been in human history, it has always been but now there is a we are like going into the Sodoma Gomorrah scenario where the traditional churches are now authorizing homosexuality where I'm just giving on that side where people give bt, lesbianism and others but leaving that aside, even in the straight media where people are behaving man on woman there is also so many challenges locally in my African context, let's express my church, where you find so many people having extra marine affairs, people are having kids outside the wedlock young kids are going into sexual debit before marriage, fornication, incest and others so it becomes a burden to me even before I started this college degree it has always been a burden because I know so many people you will find that in my location maybe most of the African countries 80% of the people are born outside the wedlock very few people are in the wedlock, now my concern is should we let this one go like that or should we pronounce ourselves at what should be done so that's why I think if I'm given that permission I can do some little research I know people personally who are passing through that that's why when I sent you part of my my table of content it shows that I'm going to march as I will pass through just as I showed you I will look at what happened before mountain Sinai and give an example of Tama and Judah and then I'll talk about after mountain Sinai I'll give an example of a study of the David and Bathsheba sorry to interrupt but that's the little perspective foundation but how are you going to do the research because your topic is the implications in your local church so you said you knew of people who are going through this but then to find out the extent of what they are, how they are living and the kind of damage that is there how are you going to find that out because it's I'm going to use some research tools like questionnaires so do you think people will be ok to open up and talk to you about this basing my position and my talking to my pastor here they are always open because my background is also school principal so you should get to know those people because they end up wanting some assistance I see ok so let your sample size be sufficient enough, sample size in the sense the number of questionnaires, the number of responses that you get it should be something from which you can form a conclusion so at least 50 I think would be a sizable number like how big is the church how many people attend the church the church is between 450 to 500 the challenge will not be the question I mean the challenge will not be the number of people who can give me that information the challenge is the time flame I have a week but you have time to lay it to finish let me just share that timeline and show so that we are clear just one second please check the resources, whatever uploaded in the classroom section you can be clear about this so as you can see 20 point number 3 submitted draft before 9am India time that is on by next Thursday with the current status of work so whatever is the status of work which means that if you have contacted 4 people, 5 people whatever is the status you mention it these are the discussions I had with my pastor these are the people I have met so the most important thing would be to form the questionnaire whether by way of interview or by way of actually people filling in the questionnaire you get this information so 29th is to give a status of the work so all of us are aware this is where we stand and what is the amount of work quantum of work that needs to be done before the final suppression so the report will be submitted this is for online students by the 4th of April online and in person also 4th of April India time 9am 4th of April and the presentation of it happens on the 4th, 11th and 18th of April that is for in person and online students so I just wanted to remind us about that so that we don't lose track of the timeline we can plan out and pace our work according right okay okay any other questions anyone else? Good morning pastor good morning I have prepared 25 questions to ask for these families and I have just managed to get 15 to 17 parents in my local church so can I just extend my research to other churches? Sure you can and also pastor when I will ask them the questions which I will be doing from today onwards I will be visiting their house and I will be asking them whatever response I will get from them individually under that parent I have to write mention those responses so like end of my interview then how will I wind up like okay I have the questions I will be having the responses and then based on this research based on the word of God I will like how will I wind everything together and so that's the thing now first of all to tabulate your findings maybe 50 responses you put that together so each question has to be tabulated so that's how you put it together so each question let's say question number one was on profession both the parents working that's one of the things you will consider the pleasure of raising children so are both the parents working? some people have answered yes some people have answered only one so you put that together so out of 50 responses how many are saying yes both are working how many are saying one of one of us is working how many of the fathers are working how many of the fathers are working so for each of these questions you have to tabulate it so you put it together and based on that you will arrive at some of these percentages you can say ok 80% of the parents said this so based on that you form your conclusions so for every question so for every question I have to yeah you have to tabulate it every question so in an excel sheet if you have 25-30 questions you put it in a column and then you have all the responses for this question yes or no for the other question maybe it has some other response so you have to tabulate it in that way so only then you will you will be able to form some conclusion so that's how you do it and then just go through that were you able to go through that pdf on basic research how to go about doing the research I want to be able to do that so you can also check online if you want a simpler manner so how to tabulate how to tabulate the results of a questman just do a maybe on youtube there are some videos I am sure there will be enough and more resources so you can they can help you step by step so you put that together of course what is the solution go back to the world give a public perspective for each of these problems and challenges that they are facing and that's it so about the number of questions I know this particular book suggested you should have 25 or 30 questions or something like that but you can have more it's fine how many ever questions that you feel is important is necessary for your finding to have solid reason so when I say majority of the people so what is that is majority 60% majority 99% so you will give a number avoiding terms like majority you will say 80% of the people feel this way 80% of yours are missionaries in Cambodia 80% of the missionaries went to Cambodia so you you are giving question to 5 missionaries 5 missionaries only are there more? because I contacted them but most of them are quite caught up with the machine work so that's the challenge you can't base your research on just 5 it's too small so find out how many missionaries are there totally from Nagaland in Cambodia and we will have to get more get their permission say this is for because you can't base it on 5 you are saying ok 5 cannot be representative of all so you have to find out how many missionaries are there totally in Cambodia 10 plus 10 plus would you have a firm number so this 10 plus are from one particular church or denomination from different churches so these 5 probably can help you have access to the other 5 or other 7 because I feel this 5 is very less to base of inclusion but of course the total number of missionaries from Nagaland if it's going to be only 10 it's like 50% then it works ok but it will be great if you can contact all it's just 10 minutes 15 minutes thing for them to sit down finish the question or you can say I'll write it down just maybe you can come on a whatsapp call maybe a 10 minute whatsapp call go through the questions you can actually write it down because I notice that all your questions are open and very descriptive so it's not a yes or no so it's going to take time for people to fill in probably that's why but you chose to have it as open but these are the challenges so you have to address those challenges so please try again don't stop with just 5 please try again any other doubts so ok so let me use you change it from spiritual test to study on the rise of depression among young adults in India so your scope is India which means you are collecting information from every state every union territory sorry yes that's right ok so let it be representative of north, south, east, west, everywhere, central India young adults, urban, rural so it's a lot of work so I hope you can cover everything people in village, people in city etc and young adults, when you say young adults what is the age group so you define that as well so you go ahead I'm just wondering how you will get this information yes statistics will be available online but they are limited so it could be limited to urban India may not cover the entire length and breadth of the nation so you will have to make sure it covers everything otherwise it won't be just India it will be just a few states or one city so you will have to, if you want to change the scope of your research the title, maybe one state maybe one city that's also fine, but do it when you say India, it means India there's no going back you think about it in the title if you are saying young adults in the city where you are from, that is also fine but you need to decide and mention it yes sir, thank you okay so Vishesh, I see that compassion to the poor and destitute aspect of ministry so that also you might have to reword it, re-title it poor and destitute in ministry, so in terms of research you are finding out what is the need of these people and who are the people who are actually helping them so it helps to put a geographical location to it, poor and destitute where in your city, in your town, in your state or in India, so I think you need to ask yourself the question where it's good, poor and destitute ministry to the poor and destitute where and who is having impact what is the work earlier done, what is being currently done how else, what is the gap all these things are there, what is the gap in the sense this is the work but this is the need so when you put a place you will get this information this is the population of the city of this town and these are the people who are living below the poverty line this is the thing these are the kind of ministries which are being done so the importance of that so you are looking at researching believers and thinking maybe from a Christian perspective, the church is a contribution to widow's office for the destitute so it needs to be where you ask yourself the question, where do I want to do this from where do I want to get this information so that will give you focus and that will also give you clarity and accuracy in the research so please change it it's been there like that for a long time the title anyone else has anything to share anything to report how are things going Pasad is it okay to extend the research to our bible college students who are minister children so your title is minister's kids right so whatever they are doing that's fine navigating minister's kids identity so they could be working, they could be studying in bible college sometimes they are I was thinking like even in our bible college is it a conflict of interest no, not really, that's fine no problem, as long as they are okay with it you can select it yeah I think that would be interesting because some children are dedicated into ministry by their parents so the kids didn't have any say they were not even at a speaking stage in life so they were dedicated into ministry and so on so it's good to get that perspective nice Pasad in that case can I know any of our classmates are minister's kids yeah you can just ask them okay yeah you can I mean if you are on a group you can ask or you can just put it on the screen and ask are there any yeah so no problem thank you okay so yeah sure sure so Abu Ghra has a question are you going to submit our research work chapter by chapter or everything at once so it's everything at once on the 4th of April Abu Ghra so the report research work will be submitted the report will be submitted together complete on a before 9am 4th of April so before that we are just discussing the status and so on so so the thing is next Thursday before 9am India time you submit the status meaning an update this is the work that I've done so far so that's the only thing so otherwise everything is together it's not in stages it's together the report that you sent okay anyway so to help John out how many in class are fastest children or one of your parents faster both are in the ministry you know you could maybe put your hand up or put it on the chat so you can contact you okay so Rosalind how do we submit the status it's it's just a word doc but yeah maybe I'll put it up I'll put it I'll create an assignment and you can upload the word document or pdf whatever right so so you can do that okay so yeah sure okay so what you can do is during the week as in when you're preparing as in when you're doing the thing if you have any questions you know just jot it down okay so you can ask in class and if those questions get answered during the week maybe you know during a research you found the answers and that's fine I'm going to strike it up but then if you have those questions maybe just put it so you can ask it in the class right e-learning students as and when you have the questions I know you're putting it on the discussion page and I will answer e-learning students so and also your submission of your status report you can put it on the discussion page but actually you're you can just carry on with your report any questions at any point you can put it on the discussions page this is for the e-learning students discussion section okay I think yeah that's it from my side unless you have any more questions we can we can actually wind up yeah okay shall we wind up then yeah thank you first I just wanted to ask regarding the status so instead I was just checking like I can just put the word document out or is it something that you would provide us with a google doc or some just a word doc or pdf whatever you want to that's right thank you sure now I was just thinking the other day that actually when you go through the word you see that a lot of people have actually put together information right so actually put it together and sit down and it's a painstaking work like I was thinking of Dr. Luke Luke chapter 1 this is how he says in as much as many have taken in hand in order to set the narrative of those things which have been fulfilled among us just as those from the beginning where eye witnesses and ministers of the world they were going to ask it seemed good to me also having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first to write to you and orderly you know so he's just putting all these things together and praise god he was able to you know each one of them actually they thought okay it's important for me to capture this write it down put it there so that others can read and obviously in the canon of scripture we see the hand of the Holy Spirit God breathed God inspired so they wrote as the inspiration of Holy Spirit but the fact is that the human effort of sitting and sweating it out so yeah in a way I guess please like that so please encourage yourself in this to look chapter one and say I'm one of those you know yeah it's not canon of scripture anything but you know it's going to be an eye opener for me an eye opener for anyone who's reading it's going to be a blessing okay okay with these words I shall bring these things to a close okay so have a good day we'll catch up next week alright God bless you guys bye bye